Monty Python Scripts

Anagram Quiz

The cast:

The sketch:

(Pull out a little. The board has little green curtains and
there is a pepperpot standing in front of it.)

Presenter: Mrs. Scab, you have twelve hours to beat the
clock.

(A gong goes. A superimposed clock starts to move incredibly
fast. It has a minute hand and an hour hand. Twelve hours pass very
quickly. The pepperpot starts to rearrange the letters, very
quickly. She gets it right. It reads: 'merchant bank: The gong goes,
and the clock stops.)

Presenter: Correct!

Pepperpot: I've done it. I've done it. Ha, ha, ha!

(An enormous head of a large cartoon-type hammer hits her and
she goes down very fast.)